Hahnemann estimated that seven-eighths
of all chronic diseases arise from psora and the other eight from syphilis
and sycosis. It is evident that the far greater part of these are from the
former, so that diseases arising from suppressed fig- warts must be rare.
Most of the observing physicians, I we seldom have the opportunity of
verifying his views as applied to a\sycosis. Therefore I think it may be
instructive, if I report a case which occurred to me.

February 17, 1890, I was called to see
Mr. -, He is about fifty-five, has always been delicate and has had
several attacks like the present, but less severe. He served in the army
during the war, but discharged on account of chronic diarrhoea, and since
then his bowels have always been slightly inclined looseness; has had
asthma occasionally, or, more strictly, in certain localities he was it,
since boyhood.

He called me on account of haemorrhage
from the glans penis. I found what looked like a small abrasion on the
upper portion near the corona. From the description he gave of its first
appearance, I pronounced it herpes progenitalis. The haemorrhage had been
very profuse, although it came from such an insignificant looking lesion.
I gave Sulphur 200, which appeared to materially lessen the bleeding, but
did not stop it. I made several changes, giving also Apis, Rhus and other
remedies till.

April 3. -There has been no material
benefit and in addition to the abrasion, a glandular swelling, in the left
inguinal region, had appeared, which had now reached the size and sharp
9as my patient expressed it) of a mouse. I told him that there was
something about his case which I had not learned, and proceeded to examine
him de novo. He said that before the war he had had warts (condylomata) on
his penis. He had no appetite and an extreme aversion to meat. The pain in
glans at the point affected was as if there was a splinter in the sore.

On the symptoms and his history I
administered Nitric acid 500 (the anti-sycotic, that is second only to
Thuja)in water, to take four teaspoonfuls, then to be followed by placebo.
Improvement a\set in immediately and proceeded rapidly, without any
repetition or change of the remedy. In three weeks he was well, barring
weakness.

I forget to say that the fig warts had
been removed by instruments. I firmly believe that the sycotic miasm, or
virus, had been deteriorating his health all those thirty years, and by
the indicated remedy was so soon rendered innocuous. Hahnemann's services
to mankind consist in other things besides the discovery and formulation
of the law of the Similars. The psoric theory was a discovery of
transcendental value, and notwithstanding many of his professed followers
have discarded it, the more advanced minds of the old school are taking it
up and utilizing it by forbidding the suppression of disease
manifestations by external application.